Deported general arrives in Haiti to face massacre charges

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A former Haitian general, Jean-Claude Duperval, arrived Monday in Port-au-Prince following his deportation from the United States accused of involvement in a 1994 massacre here.

Duperval was the Haitian army's second in command during the 1991-1994 military dictatorship of Raoul Cedras which ousted elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide in a bloody coup in September 1991.

After constitutional order was restored, Duperval was convicted in absentia for the slayings of 28 people in a massacre at Raboteau, in the city of Gonaives, north of Haiti's capital.

Arrested in Florida on January 14, Duperval arrived on a flight here Monday along with 25 other people repatriated to Haiti for a variety of reasons.

The former general had lived in the United States for nine years, according to The Miami Herald.

He now faces retrial in Haiti. 

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